So I managed to run the game in 86Box (cool project, btw!); but it needs a Pentium apparently (on a 386 it just sends me to the DOS prompt). Something is not what I was expecting in the compilation; trying to find out what is it.
Also found an issue with the keyboard code, and added "no sound" option in a basic CLI.
On the Pentium it plays very slow (and no sound anyway), but I'm not sure if it is 86Box or what.
Today I searched something less niche than the stuff I usually look for in DDG and oh dear the SEO grabage: all lists of the X of Y.
I don't tend to experience this because either I search for things with no SEO value or I use the "bangs" so my search goes to the site I'm interested in, which means I go more to the official source of information than to whatever the search engine results are.
After breakfast I run a quick test with zlib compression on the game assets, and it doesn't make a big difference. The binary will be large anyway, probably because whatever DJGPP does with it.
Which is OK. My only constraint is that I want it all to fit a diskette and looks like that's going to happen.
I hate when people put meetings at lunch time. Is it hard to find space in the calendar? Do it in advance, or early (I never have meetings from 8 to 10, why is that?).
Is not hard to realise that there's free time at lunch time because... that's when people have lunch!
When my instance was having issues yesterday I used the opportunity to upgrade my servers from Buster to Bulllseye. Still not "current", but now the EOL is July 2026.
No issues, no surprises in the "ops, configuration changed!" front, which is the only thing that can get me upgrading Debian.
"Going forward, the company said in an internal memo, Mozilla will focus on bringing “trustworthy AI into Firefox.” To do so, it will bring together the teams that work on Pocket, Content and AI/Ml."
Accidentally started a flame on the orange site because some people don't understand the difference between free software and open source.
Seems like a lot of people think that free software is essentially copyleft (thus GPL, AGPL and mildly the LGPL), and non-copyleft licences (see MIT, BSD, Apache, and other permissive licences) are not free software but open source.
My point: HN users are generally against copyleft, but not free software because it is essentially open source 😂
I've been browsing DOS games, specially RGPs of all ages. I love the creativity. Sure, a lot of them look like crap now and the playability/accessibility is bad, but I wonder if those details are actually preventing us to make games because modern expectations are too high for one single person to make a "good enough game".
There are a few exceptions, of course, so is not impossible. But I feel paralysed because I'm not one of those exceptional developers, and I end doing nothing 🙄
